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Free Clean Fill Dirt: poems
Free Clean Fill Dirt , Caryl Pagel's third book of poetry, is a study in disruption, interruption, and ruin, tracing geological and historical palimpsests via caesura, fragmentation, echo, and humor. In these rigorous, formally adventurous poems Pagel calls upon the playful, unsettling sonic sensibilities of writers such as Lorine Niedecker, Russell Atkins, Frank O'Hara, and H. D., as she ties the music of place to personal “There is / something in the way / of the thought,� the narrator is it sound, desire, violence, or image? Pagel dwells in the anti-ordinary ordinary strata of Midwestern mythologies, emergencies, landscapes, and crises. Using a blend of ecopoetic, visual, and archival modes,� Free Clean Fill Dirt� is a collection of poems making intimacy of deep time and vanitas of vision.
- GenresPoetry
91 pages, Paperback
Published September 13, 2022
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About the author
Caryl Pagel
9Ìýbooks35ÌýfollowersCaryl Pagel is an associate professor at Cleveland State University, where she teaches poetry and nonfiction in the NEOMFA program. She is author of two books of poetry, Twice Told and Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death, and a collection of essays, Out of Nowhere Into Nothing. Pagel is a cofounder and editor at Rescue Press and the director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
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October 26, 2022
I'm almost too much the audience for this poetry collection, since it focuses often on places I am intimate with like Severance Circle and Coventry Road and Lakeview Cemetery.
I really enjoyed much of it, though I found myself annoyed at how all the poems were double-spaced... I know that sounds like a very nitpicky thing, but I felt some of the poems benefitted from their visual layout while others just felt padded by the space.
I really enjoyed much of it, though I found myself annoyed at how all the poems were double-spaced... I know that sounds like a very nitpicky thing, but I felt some of the poems benefitted from their visual layout while others just felt padded by the space.
August 31, 2023
The long poems in here are absolutely astonishing. Mouth open, laughing out loud, deep sigh, wow -- that kind of thing. They also sound wonderful when read aloud.
April 1, 2024
Wonderful poems, full of music and wit.
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